You’ve heard of Black Lives Matter. But you’ve probably never heard of Fans For Diversity.
The grassroots football supporters campaign – a joint project run by the Football Supporters’ Association and the Kick It Out alliance – hasn’t had its name or slogan prominently displayed on the back of Premier League matchday shirts.
There have been no stars or officials proudly taking a knee at kick-off in support of their crusade to ‘overcome exclusion or a perception of exclusion’ within the game.
Footballers have been taking a knee before Premier League matches in support of the worldwide Black Lives Matter movement following the death of George Floyd in the US
Where Black Lives Matter UK aims to ‘dismantle imperialism, capitalism, white-supremacy, patriarchy and the state structures that disproportionately harm black people in Britain and around the world’, Fans For Diversity’s more modest objective is to ensure that when it comes to ‘pies and pakoras; Bovril and beer; a rainbow flag?